Above: House Majority Leader Sereno E. Payne (R-NY).
61st Congress (1909-1911)
President: William Howard Taft (R-OH)
House Majority Party: Republican
House Majority Seats: 219 out of 391
House Speaker: Rep. Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)
Vice President: James S. Sherman (R-NY)
Senate Majority Party: Republican
Senate Majority Seats: 60 out of 92
Senate Majority Leader: (none)
Enactments:
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909
Immigration Act of 1910
Bureau of Mines Act
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1910
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriations Act of 1910
AZ, NM Enabling Act
Rivers and Harbors Act of 1910
Civil Expense Act of 1910
16th Amendment
Enactments (cont):
Postal Savings Act of 1910
Publicity Act of 1910
Reimbursement Act
Public Land Withdrawal Act
Expedition Act of 1910
Weeks Forest Purchase Act
Currency Act of 1911
Judiciary Code Act of 1911
Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1911